Agriculture Industry
Was searching for disclosure re TUNA but instead found out that ANI had disclosure last Aug 26th. I had always believed in the agri-sector and invested.
I thought why our own government are not pro-acting on our agricultural sector. (Or are they?) What we see are the fertilizer scam? Or the Quidancor Scam? I believe this private venture is good for our country..better management.. Hope they help to attaining/improving our country's potential to become self reliant, and become more financially independent. Make us become RICE surplus again. Sugar surplus.. 
Most advanced countries did start on the agricultural before they step on the next level of advancement. If we develop our countrysides, empowering more income to the ordinary farmers, we shall see our country's economy moving more forward. So far though, many farmers are toiling hard to provide tuition for their children's college. Hope this will improve furthermore. Being one of those who is concerned of the increasing global shift of temperature, I believe our government should really increase funding to these enterprises, focus on our food security. Weather changes can directly affect crop's normal yield or cycle. So far, we are seeing countries food production dropped due to dry spell or flooding. I believe with our tropical weather, and with technological assistance, our farmers can easily increse productivity and possibly surplus pa. Our country's idle land are so huge. Sana next election compaign REALLY sincere sila to help our massa rural folks, and REALLY help their farming.
http://www.pse.com.ph/html/disclosure/p ... 00_ANI.pdf
Rain/Melhins - sorry for the late reply, been travelling.
The rise of New York Sugar#11 from less than 10cents to over 24cents in less than 2 years is spectacular. The recent sharp decline had not inflicted any technical damage to the rally (yet). The uptrend remains intact (so far). The rise in the world market price has deterred smuggling of sugar into the Phils. Sugarcane farmers are faring better than farmers in the other sectors. Rice farmers, attracted by very high prices last year, planted more and used high-priced fertilizer at over PHP2,000 per bag. By the way, they missed out on the high prices (P30 per kg) because prices rallied after they have sold their crop last year. When the harvest came and after using costly fertilizers, prices were down to P10 per kg. Ouch... Poor farmers Still on rice. The rice harvest in the 2nd quarter was reportedly good in spite of (or is it due to) the rainy summer. Harvest stats have to be bumped up in order to explain the physical inventories. Smuggled rice entered the stats as domestic production. Poor rice farmers. Tsk tsk tsk. Ex-Congressman and losing senatorial candidate did not import vegetables as his name sounds like a certain vegetable. He reportedly brought in (to put it mildly) xxxx to the detriment of the rice farmers. Poor farmers. Corn prices dropped from PHP13.00 tp PHP8.00 per kg due to massive imports and smuggling of corn and the opening of the floodgates for duty-free feed wheat (a corn substitute). Poor farmers. Copra resecada prices have dropped from PHP30.00 to P18.00 per kg. Poor farmers. Did you notice a drop in the price of the edible oil in supermarkets? You must have seen on TV how onion farmers (supported by NGOs) were given the runaround even when traders of smuggled onions were caught red-handed. Poor farmers. A lot of rallyists have died at Mendiola but I think the largest number of fatalities was recorded during a farmers' rally in the first year of the Cory Aquino admin. The poor farmers were massacred. Poor farmers. Happy days?? Hmmmm. For sugarcane farmers, yes. Domestic sugar quedans were bidded at PHP1,295 per 50kg bag in Negros Occ this week.
Sometime in the near future we may hear water war. Iraq just made a complain accusing Syria and Turkey of using too much water from the Tigris and Euphrates River. These countries shares these rivers.
The fact of the matter is the rivers are in record low due to our weather disturbances. Thisis a water powder keg. Perhaps what we anticipated a global war will not be due to oil but water.
Thanks for the extensive reply Boss Chobeeboo. Kawawa talaga ang mga farmers. In 2 year's time when prices of sugar would have gone down. Laganap na naman ang "imported" sugar sa Pinas especially sa South. Sad Part is everybody knows it exists but nobody really talks about it. True, that the SRA has been doing it's part but these are just peanuts compared to what flows into the market.
This was not the true price in the market since volume was only 1,800 lkg. Probably an attempt of some trader to bring price up so they can exit with their long held stocks. True price during that time was 1,260 - 1,270. Last week it was 1,250.
http://hplusmagazine.com/articles/energ ... sion-power
Of Coconut Futures and Thermonuclear Fusion Power 
There may soon be a run on coconut futures. Vintage 2002 Indonesian coconut-shell charcoal is being used to help build what may become the first commercially viable Tokamak fusion power electrical generating facility near Cadarache in the south of France – about 38 miles from the Mediterranean. Tokamak (from the Russian for “toroidal chamber with magnetic coils”) is a type of magnetic confinement device for producing controlled thermonuclear fusion power. The coconut charcoal is an environmental sponge that “adsorbs” the helium and hydrogen byproducts of the thermonuclear fusion reaction. In what sounds like it could be the beginnings of a Star Trek-like Federation, the United States has joined the European Union, Japan, the Russian Federation, China, Korea, and India in negotiations for the establishment of the burning plasma prototype facility called ITER, which in Latin means "the way." The fusion power produced by ITER will be at least 10 times greater than the external power delivered to heat the plasma. It’s not quite a Starship warp drive, but it does harness the power of the sun. ITER is expected to cost more than $10 billion. Skeptics point out that ever since the idea of fusion power was first touted in the 1950s, fusion's promise of clean power has receded endlessly into the future. Here’s a short video on the promise of ITER: The Tokamak building is the core of ITER, where fusion experiments are planned to start in 2018. The reinforced concrete structure will sit with 5 1/2 stories underground and nineteen stories above. Adjacent to the main building, an assembly hall will be the location for pre-assembly of Tokamak components. In ITER, the fusion reaction is achieved in Tokamak using magnetic fields to contain and control hot plasma. The fuel –- a mixture of deuterium and tritium, both isotopes of hydrogen –- is heated to temperatures in excess of 150 million°C, forming helium and neutrons in addition to the hot plasma. A helium nucleus carries an electric charge that responds to the magnetic fields of the Tokamak, and remains confined within the plasma. Approximately 80% of the energy produced is carried away from the plasma by neutrons -- a neutron has no electrical charge and is unaffected by magnetic fields. The neutrons are absorbed by the surrounding walls of the Tokamak, transferring their energy to the walls as heat.
I guess not even global recession can put a good product down...
Processed mango firm sees bigger sales despite slowdown in top export markets BusinessWorld Online, Monday, November 02, 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES http://beta.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=695 The country’s largest dried mango producer, Profood International Corp., said its sales this year would be better than in 2008 as continued demand for food items abroad have shielded the sector from the global economic slump. The firm, which is largely dependent on Visayas and Mindanao harvests, has likewise been spared from recent storms that hit Luzon, its president Justin S. Uy said. "We are glad we are in the food industry. Our second-half sales will have a double-digit increase over [the same period in] 2008," Mr. Uy told BusinessWorld in a chance interview... The company ships its goods to Asia, Europe, Canada and the US. About 95% of the food processor’s products are exported. The Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. had similarly pointed to the resilience of the country’s traditional food exports like mangoes, bananas and pineapples. Their markets abroad are more established and therefore less vulnerable to global shocks, Philexport President Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis, Jr. had said. Only Profood’s export sales to markets that saw severe currency fluctuations -- Russia and South Korea -- were hit but numbers for these are recovering, Mr. Uy said... The firm’s operations including the supply of fruits, he added, have generally remained unscathed from weather disturbances. "Prices of raw materials are stable despite bad weather in Luzon. We get our [fruits] from Visayas and Mindanao during this period, June to February," Mr. Uy said. -- Jessica Anne D. Hermosa
The above facts are true. Know the family of Profoods. Agriculture as I pointed out is a recession proof industry. I guess some of us longed for food when feeling depressed?
 Just kidding.
Back to the Ethanol issue, it has been proven that just burning the corn to generate electricity is more efficient (by 50%) if compared to processing those corns into Ethanols. For this matter, a hybrid car is much more efficient if using electircity to recharge than using the ethanols. Facts is recharging your car over midnight wont add extra strain to the power plants. During these hours these power plants have lots of excesses. Better utilitze these waste electricity. Another things converting corn to rthanol consumes lots of water, not also to mention in the plantations. When our world confirms to have water crisis...isnt this just defeating the goal of a better Earth?
With cooperatives, I hope the farmers are getting a better deal, instead of falling at the mercy of traders and middlemen who reap the greatest (unjust?) rewards.
Queen pineapple exported to S Korea By MELODY M. AGUIBA November 2, 2009, 6:04pm http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/227543/qu ... ed-s-korea The Philippines is taking an aggressive move to market its queen pineapple as a farmers' cooperative in Labo, Camarines Norte is aiming to export it to South Korea on a regular basis while briskly selling off an "all natural"packed queen pineapple juice to the domestic market. The Labo Progressive Multi Purpose Cooperative (LPMPC) is carrying out an expansion from the existing 500 hectares planted to queen pineapple whose harvest is presently being used for manufacturing different products-- pineapple juice in tetra pack, pina fiber, and dehydrated pineapple. The LPMPC is also supplying its fresh pineapple to SM Naga and to Metro Manila. However, it also aims to export queen pineapple to South Korea in a more sustained basis than what has been so far done in the past. "There are 8,000 hectares planted to queen pineapple now (in Camarines Norte), but we need volume to have a sustainable supply for export. We need to fill a van with 20,000 fruits per shipment," said Mario M. Espeso, LPMPC general manager, in an interview at its farm in Brgy. Malasugul, Labo, Camarines Norte. The cooperative currently has a tie-up with Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for a 20-hectare pineapple planting while a separate five-hectare land is being devoted as a demonstration area for Good Agricultural Practice (GAP) which it also needs in its aim to sell to the world market...
US companies eye farms, aquaculture areas in Mindanao
C.Q. Francisco, BusinessWorld Online, Thursday, October 29, 2009 http://beta.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=506 DAVAO CITY -- Members of a visting US trade mission now in Mindanao are looking into biofuel crops, high-value crops like banana and pineapple, palm oil, aquaculture, as well as providing technology to boost farm productivity, Marriz B. Agbon, president of the Philippine Agricultural Development and Commercial Corp., said in an interview here. "We hope that Mindanao can corner investments in this visit," Mr. Agbon said, claiming the business matching event in Makati City last Monday yielded $330 million worth of investment pledges from four US companies, two of them into biofuel crops. Among the crops that the American companies want to be involved in, he said, are jathropa, cassava and corn, while another firm asked about Mindanao’s mariculture parks. Specifically, Verdant Ocean Inc., which is into aquaculture feed and equipment, was looking at the 1,000-hectare mariculture park in Panabo City, one of two such parks in the Davao Region, the other being in Samal. "I will look at the infrastructure [of mariculture parks] and how sustainable their operations are," Verdant Ocean president Denzil Nicholson, said in a briefing. "They must go into value-adding because this will result in sustainability."
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